The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers.

Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Intensive Care First Year Consultant

Full time / Fixed Term 12-month appointment, commencing 01 February 2027

The Royal Melbourne Hospital is an award-winning health care service and is Victoria’s second largest public health service. The Royal Melbourne Hospital provides comprehensive acute, sub-acute, general, specialist medical and mental health services through both inpatient and community-based facilities through the following services: The Royal Melbourne Hospital – City Campus, The Royal Melbourne Hospital – Royal Park Campus, Northwestern Mental Health, RMH Kidney Care Service and Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory.  The Royal Melbourne ICU provides adult critical care services to the Royal Women’s Hospital and the Victorian Comprehensive cancer Centre (VCCC).

About the Role:

This one-year fixed term full time salaried career development position will allow a recently qualified intensive care specialist to gain experience as a practicing intensivist. The successful candidate will be fully integrated into the consultant clinical roster of the adult intensive care service of the Royal Melbourne Hospital for a 12-month period.

This exciting position offers the opportunity to join a dynamic team that provides intensive care to critically ill patients of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Women’s Hospital in a state-of-the art 42 bed capacity Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The RMH ICU admits more than 3200 patients per year and, as a level one trauma centre and the state referral centre for stroke services, an intermediate ECMO centre, provides intensive care support for a wide variety of clinical presentations.

The position is a predominantly clinical role with a component of non-clinical time. The successful appointee will be expected to use their non-clinical time to lead the ICU Registrar roster, be an active participant in the trainee education program, and encouraged to establish links with local / national / international clinician researchers and / or clinician administrators.  The successful applicant will be encouraged to undertake preliminary research / quality projects / commence other postgraduate qualifications in areas of interest mutually beneficial to the Intensive Care First Year Consultant and the Royal Melbourne Intensive Care Unit. The position may be shared between suitable applicants.

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About You:

• Registration with the Medical Board of Australia
• Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand

Benefits:

• values based organisation. Working with Melbourne Health is a rewarding experience, offering great prospects for career diversity and professional advancement.
• Salary Packaging
• Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing Programs including; staff gym, staff health service and peer support program.

All appointments are made subject to satisfactory police records check.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital values a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Interested?

Upload your resume, cover letter and two references.

For more information, please contact A/Professor Chris MacIsaac on 03 9342 9254or email Christopher.MacIsaac@mh.org.au

Don't delay. Apply Now! Recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable candidates are received.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and satisfactory Working With Children Check.

The RMH is committed to creating a culturally safe environment as a collective responsibility. We draw on our principles of self-determination, equity, accountability, and shared learning to create a culturally responsive health system that challenges how we strive for continuous quality improvement to meet the expectations of the communities and patients we serve.

RMH is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with the Child Safe Standards.

As a leader in healthcare, we recognise the need to foster a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging. We encourage people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities to apply, and will provide adjustments to support equitable participation.